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information on how it is assessing, 

mitigating, and monitoring the safety 

risk associated with assaults on transit 

workers, which FTA may use to inform 

future Federal action to protect transit 

workers. 

FTA is proposing to issue this General 

Directive to all transit agencies required 

to have an ASP under the PTASP 

regulation because FTA has determined 

that the hazard that transit workers must 

interact with the public, and, at times, 

must clarify or enforce agency policies, 

exists at transit agencies of all sizes and 

across all modes of public 

transportation, not just those in large 

urbanized areas. 

The proposed General Directive 

contains proposed binding obligations, 

which 49 U.S.C. 5334(k) defines as ‘‘a 

substantive policy statement, rule, or 

guidance document issued by the 

Federal Transit Administration that 

grants rights, imposes obligations, 

produces significant effects on private 

interests, or effects a significant change 

in existing policy.’’ Under 49 U.S.C. 

5334(k) FTA may issue binding 

obligations if it follows notice and 

comment rulemaking procedures under 

5 U.S.C. 553. 

FTA requests public comment on this 

proposed General Directive, which is 

available on the FTA website at https:// 

www.transit.dot.gov/regulations-andguidance/safety/fta-general-directives 

and in Docket No. FTA–2023–0032. 

Following an analysis of the public 

comments, FTA will publish a notice in 

the Federal Register that includes both 

a response to comments and announces 

a final General Directive or a statement 

rescinding or revising the proposed 

General Directive. 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 5329; 49 CFR 

1.91, 670.25. 

Veronica Vanterpool, 

Deputy Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28002 Filed 12–19–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket ID Number: DOT–OST–2018–0068] 

Agency Request for Emergency 

Clearance To Extend Information 

Collection Request Related to 

Traveling by Air With Service Animals 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), 

Department of Transportation 

(Department or DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of request for emergency 

OMB approval. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces DOT’s intention to 

seek emergency clearance to extend the 

information collection request (ICR) 

under Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Control Number 2105–0576, 

‘‘U.S. Department of Transportation 

Service Animal Air Transportation 

Form’’ and ‘‘U.S. Department of 

Transportation Service Animal Relief 

Attestation Form.’’ We are seeking 

emergency clearance to temporarily 

extend the ICR to ensure that airlines 

may continue to collect service animal 

forms from passengers with disabilities, 

which provide assurances to the airline 

that the service animal does not pose a 

safety threat to passengers and crew 

onboard aircraft. DOT requests that 

OMB approve this extension request 

within 7 days. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before December 27, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may file comments 

identified by the docket number DOT– 

OST–2018–0068 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. (You may access comments 

received for this notice at http://

www.regulations.gov by searching 

docket DOT–OST–2018–0068.) 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, West Building 

Ground Floor Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001; 

• Hand delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name and docket number DOT– 

OST–2010–0054 at the beginning of 

your comment. All comments received 

will be posted without change to 

https://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received in any of DOT’s dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maegan Johnson or Livaughn Chapman, 

Jr., Office of Aviation Consumer 

Protection, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 

telephone number (202) 366–9342 

(voice), (202) 366–7152 (fax); 

maegan.johnson@dot.gov or 

livaughn.chapman@dot.gov (email). 

Arrangements to receive this document 

in an alternative format may be made by 

contacting the above-named 

individuals. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 2105–0576. 

Title: Traveling by Air with Service 

Animals. 

Type of Request: Request for 

emergency extension of existing 

information collections. 

Background: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (Department or DOT) 

published a final rule to amend the 

Department’s Air Carrier Access Act 

(ACAA) regulation on the transport of 

service animals by air in the Federal 

Register on December 10, 2020 (85 FR 

79742). 14 CFR 382.75 allows airlines to 

require passengers traveling with 

service animals to provide airlines with 

the following two forms of 

documentation developed by the 

Department as a condition of travel. The 

first form published in the rule, the U.S. 

Department of Transportation Service 

Animal Air Transportation Form 

(‘‘Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form’’), is designed to ensure and 

inform airlines of the service animal’s 

good health, disability-related task 

training, and good behavior; to educate 

passengers traveling with service 

animals on how service animals in air 

transportation are expected to behave; 

and to inform passengers traveling with 

service animals of the consequences of 

service animal misbehavior. The second 

form published in the rule, the U.S. 

Department of Transportation Service 

Animal Relief Attestation Form (‘‘Relief 

Attestation Form’’), may only be 

required by airlines when a passenger is 

traveling with service animals on a 

flight segment scheduled to take 8 hours 

or more. The purpose of this form is to 

provide assurances to airlines that the 

service animal will not need to relieve 

itself on the flight or that the animal can 

relieve itself in a way that does not 

create a health or sanitation issue, and 

to educate passengers of the 

consequences should an animal relieve 

itself on the aircraft in an unsanitary 

way. 

The Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form and the Relief Attestation Form 

are the only forms that airlines are 

permitted to require from passengers 

traveling with service animals as a 

condition of transport, except in rare 


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1Comment from A4A, https://

www.regulations.gov/document?D=DOT-OST-2018- 

0068-4288. A4A estimates that 281,000 service 

animals were transported on U.S. airlines in 2017. 

DOT estimates that 38,000 service animals were 

transported by foreign airlines on flights to and 

from the U.S. in 2017 based on air carrier passenger 

data from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, 

available at https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017- 

traffic-data-us-airlines-andforeign-airlines-usflights. 

2See, Traveling by Air with Service Animals 

(FR)—Regulatory Impact Analysis (November 

2020); https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOTOST-2018-0068-32399. 

3Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2022). 

‘‘2022 Traffic Data for U.S. Airlines and Foreign 

Airlines U.S. Flights.’’ https://

www.transtats.bts.gov/Data_Elements.aspx?Data=4. 

The number of passengers on foreign carriers (84.5 

million) was 9.9 percent of the number on domestic 

carriers (852.8 million). 

4For a discussion of estimating the value of 

uncompensated activities, see ‘‘Valuing Time in 

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 

Regulatory Impact Analyses: Conceptual 

Framework and Best Practices’’ from the 

Department of Health and Human Services, 

available at https://aspe.hhs.gov/system/files/pdf/ 

257746/VOT.pdf. 

5Bureau of Labor Statistics (2022). ‘‘May 2022 

National Occupational Employment and Wage 

Estimates: United States.’’ https://www.bls.gov/oes/ 

current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000. 

circumstances when additional 

documentation may be necessary to 

comply with requirements on transport 

of animals by a Federal agency, a U.S. 

territory, or a foreign jurisdiction. 

Currently, OMB authorization of the 

information collections expire on 

December 31, 2023. 

1. Requirement To Prepare and Submit 

to Airlines the DOT Air Transportation 

Service Animal Behavior and Health 

Attestation Form 

Respondents: Passengers with 

disabilities traveling on aircraft with 

service animals. 

Number of Respondents: The 

Department estimates that 310,145 

respondents will complete the Service 

Animal Health and Attestation form. 

This estimate was calculated by using 

the same analysis used by the 

Department in its 2021 Service Animal 

Regulatory Impact Analysis (RIA), 

where the Department estimated that 

319,000 respondents would use the 

Service Animal Health and Attestation 

Form. 

In the RIA, the Department relied on 

2017 passenger data and estimates 

provided from Airlines for America on 

the number of service animals 

transported by U.S. air carriers in 2017 1

to estimate the number of respondents 

that would use the Service Animal 

Health and Attestation form. DOT 

estimated that in 2017, 281,000 service 

animals were transported by U.S. 

carriers on flights to, within, and from 

the United States, and 38,000 were 

transported by foreign air carriers on 

flights to and from the United States.2

Assuming that only one passenger with 

a disability travels with a service 

animal, the Department determined in 

2021 that 319,000 respondents (281,000 

+ 38,000) would use the service animal 

form. 

For the purposes of this renewal, the 

Department relied on 2022 enplanement 

data to estimate the number of 

respondents that would complete the 

service animal forms. In 2022, U.S. 

passenger enplanements increased by .5 

percent and foreign carrier 

enplanements decreased by 27 percent.3

Thus, DOT estimates that 282,405 

service animals were transported by 

U.S. carriers to, from, or within the U.S. 

in 2022 and, if foreign carriers had a 

similar proportion of passengers 

traveling with service animals, foreign 

carriers transported 27,740 service 

animals to or from the U.S. in 2022. 

Assuming that only one passenger with 

a disability travels with a service 

animal, 310,145 respondents (282,405 + 

27,740) would complete the service 

animal behavior and health attestation 

form. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: We estimate that 

completing the form would require 15 

minutes (.25 hours) per response, 

including the time it takes to retrieve an 

electronic or paper version of the form 

from the carrier’s website, reviewing the 

instructions, and completing the 

questions. Passengers would spend a 

total of 77,536 hours annually (0.25 

hours × 310,145 passengers) to retrieve 

and complete an accessible version of 

the form. Passengers would fill out the 

forms on their own time without pay. 

To estimate the value of this 

uncompensated activity, we use median 

wage data from the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics.4 We use a post-tax wage 

estimate of $18.48 ($22.26 median for 

all occupations minus a 17% percent 

estimated tax rate). The estimated 

annual value of this time is $1,432,865 

($18.48 × 77,536 hours).5

2. Requirement To Prepare and Submit 

to Airlines the DOT Service Animal 

Relief Attestation Form 

Respondents: Passengers with 

disabilities traveling on aircraft with 

service animals on flight segments 

scheduled to take 8 hours or more. 

Number of Respondents: The 

Department estimates that 5 percent of 

service animal users would be on flight 

segments scheduled to take 8 hours or 

more and would also have to complete 

the Relief Attestation Form, for a total 

of 15,507 respondents (310,145 × 0.05). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: We estimate that 

completing the form would require 15 

minutes (.25 hours) per response, 

including the time it takes to retrieve an 

electronic or paper version of the form 

from the carrier’s website, reviewing the 

instructions, and completing the 

questions. Passengers would spend a 

total of 3,877 hours annually (0.25 hours 

× 15,507 passengers) to retrieve an 

accessible version of the form and 

complete the form. Passengers would 

fill out the forms on their own time 

without pay, as they would with the 

Animal Behavior and Health Attestation 

Form. The estimated annual value of 

this time is $71,647 ($18.48 × 3,877 

hours). 

Comments Invited 

We invite comments on: (a) Whether 

the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record on 

the docket. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 59 CFR 1.48. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Livaughn Chapman Jr., 

Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Office of 

Aviation Consumer Protection. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27956 Filed 12–19–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request Relating to Recommendation 

for Juvenile Employment With the 

Internal Revenue Service 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 


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